Sports
The games consisted of 34 events in four sports: alpine skiing, ice sledge hockey, ice sledge racing, and nordic skiing. The sport of Nordic skiing comprised two disciplines, the biathlon and cross-country skiing.
- Alpine skiing
- Sledge hockey
- Ice sledge racing
- Nordic skiing
- Biathlon
- Cross-country skiing
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“There be some sports are painful, and their labor
Delight in them sets off. Some kinds of baseness
Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters
Point to rich ends.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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While we may the sports of love;
Time will not be ours forever,
He at length our good will sever.”
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